Invasive lobular breast cancer is the second most common type of breast cancer.
First discovered over 50 years ago, 22 people a day are diagnosed with it in the UK. Despite its prevalence, this disease remains under-researched, underfunded and poorly understood. Consequently, there is no specific treatment, and that is why it is known to some as a ‘forgotten cancer’.
Cruelly, it frequently fails to show on mammograms and ultrasounds, making late diagnosis of the disease a common theme, with subsequent poorer outcomes. And this is the reality for a truly courageous woman whom I had the privilege of getting to know over the last year.
Read my full piece here: https://www.politicshome.com/opinion/article/lobular-breast-cancer-no-longer-forgotten-join-fight-wes-streeting
